Justice Department Joins Lawsuit Challenging National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) Transfer Eligibility Rule
Today, the Justice Department joined 10 states and the District of Columbia in a civil antitrust lawsuit challenging the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) Transfer Eligibility Rule. The amended complaint alleges that the NCAA unreasonably ...
Overall what these posts from today go over is that college athletics as they are today will change forever at some point because the NCAA has been doing shady shit for ages. The problem is however that what will most likely end up happening is that all of the “non-revenue sports” (literally everything except for football and men/women’s basketball) will end up getting either shrunk or cut.
Those non-revenue sports are also all of the Olympic sports, so if they all get cut, or most of them get cut, we will probably end up sucking at the Olympics because many of our athletes for these sports come from colleges. We shall see, but this is a long time coming, the NCAA abused labor law for decades because they didn’t want to pay players.
The origin of the term “student-athlete” even comes from a lawsuit where a widow sued FSU back in the 50s because her husband died getting tackled in a game, and they used that to weasel out of providing benefits because the player wasn’t an employee.
This is so stupid. Even with the one free transfer (that often turns into another transfer after that) is way over the line. This will just allow the top to poach from the middle even more. This is so stupid and WILL destroy the sport.